Poptropica Creators Database

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Poptropica Creators — they’re the team behind every detail of the game we know and love. Every island, every item, every idea, everything. They write up the fun posts with special sneak peeks you see on their Creators’ Blog, make videos for the Creators’ YouTube channel, and lots more. This page is all about those identities – their aliases (Poptropican alter egos) as well as their real life ones.

In actuality, Poptropica Creators sometimes switch from identity to identity, but this is just a fun way to present them together. Let’s start with those whose real identities have been matched up to Poptropica alter egos!

Captain Crawfish

Captain Crawfish is prominent for being the primary post-writer on the Creators’ Blog, being the voice of the Poptropica video walkthroughs, and more. In the game, he’s the villain of Skullduggery Island. His username is CaptainCrawfishCreator.

We know the voice who narrates the aforementioned videos is that of Mitch Krpata from an interview he spoke in. Mitch is Poptropica’s lead writer and has written most of Poptropica’s graphic novels and much more. You can learn more about him and his advice to Poptropicans in this interview conducted by the PHB.

Comic Kid

Jeff Kinney is the founder of Poptropica. You may also know him as the author of the bestselling children’s book series Diary of a Wimpy Kid (which has some sponsored islands on Poptropica). He also mentions being the founder of Poptropica at the back of his Diary of a Wimpy Kid books.

It is not confirmed whether Comic Kid (a retired personality who used to write on the Creators’ Blog) is in fact Jeff’s alter ego, but players have referred to him as such due to his connection with comics. In the game, “Comic Kid” is known as Ned Noodlehead, the comic book store owner on Super Power Island. His Poptropica account is unknown.

Director D

Director D

Director D is the retired alias of past Poptropica product development director James D. Lema. His username is DirectorDcreator1, and James Lema’s LinkedIn profile picture used to be one of Director D. Additionally, there is a post on the Boston PIB (Partners in Business) blog (which is related to Pearson, Poptropica’s company) in which he presented a graphic invitation to a ‘Poptropica Lunchtime Seminar.’

Dr. Hare

Dr. Hare

Dr. Hare is the alias of Poptropica lead developer Jordan Leary – we know this because his Poptropica username is, simply, JordanLeary. Jordan’s website has an image of Poptropica and describes it as, “This is the big game I’m currently working on.” He has also been quoted in an HJNews.com article about Poptropica. Jordan is the one in the middle of the picture on the right. Also, the developer “Billy Jordan” on Mocktropica Island could be a reference to Jordan.

In the game, he is the villain of 24 Carrot Island, and according to Poptropica: The Official Guide, the idea of Dr. Hare was conceived by Shark Boy (presumably Nate Greenwall; see below) when he was in college and was thinking of a nemesis for his comic book protagonist, Carrot Teen (a radioactive carrot).

Dr. Lange

Dr. Lange is presumably the alias of Poptropica game designer (artist) Ashley Lange, based on their names. Her username is not known, and Dr. Lange’s character appears in-game as the scientist on Virus Hunter Island who sends you into Joe’s body.

Hazmat Hermit

Hazmat Hermit

Hazmat Hermit is the alias of Justin Lacy – we know this because his Poptropica username is, simply, JustinLacy. Not much is known about him, and although he used to blog on the Creators’ Blog, the identity seems to have since been retired. In the game, he is the guy standing on the meteorite that crashed into the Super Power Island county prison.

Master Mime

Master Mime is the alias of Poptropica illustrator and advertising design manager Jon Pitcher, but his Poptropica account is unknown. Jon’s LinkedIn profile used to be a picture of Master Mime, a character modeled after the mimes on Counterfeit Island. On Survival Island (Episode 4), there is a Pitcher item with “Jon” engraved on it – a clever reference to this very person.

Medusa

Medusa is the alias of writer Tracey West, who has authored several Poptropica books. One of these is Poptropica: The Official Guide, where it says that Medusa, a character from Mythology Island, is also known as Tracey West.

On page 116 of Poptropica: The Official Guide, “Medusa” writes, “When I first learned about Greek Mythology in school, Athena was always my favorite goddess. I knew I had to make her a major character when I wrote the Mythology Island script.”

He is believed to be the alias of Poptropica illustrator/lead designer Nate Greenwall, whose office looks just like a picture that was once posted by Shark Boy on the Creators’ Blog (the post has since been removed). Nate’s website also confirms his role within Poptropica.

Skinny Moon

Skinny Moon, also known as Jessica Devine, is the alias of the official Poptropica community liaison. As of early 2016, she is the face of Poptropica’s social media accounts, and her username is PopGirlJess.

Jessica has announced some spontaneous Multiverse parties with fans over Twitter (read about her first one here) and showed up with her character Skinny Moon, and occasionally visits the PHC (you can find various Q&As with her on the PHB).

After Mocktropica Island was released with one of the unnamed basement developer characters modeled after Chris, he took up that identity instead of Triton’s. In the game, Triton appears on the beach of Mythology Island and his username is TritonCreator.

Zeus

Zeus is the alias of Jess M. Brallier, Poptropica’s publisher and the person who runs the Poptropica Twitter (the profile picture is of Zeus), where he frequently connects with Poptropica fans. His Poptropica username is not known, but Zeus appears in-game as the villain of Mythology Island.

Jess once met up with renowned Poptropica player Thinknoodles for a chat in New York City, which you can read about here. He has also generously participated in a Q&A with us (the Poptropica Help Network), which you can read the contents of here.

Other Aliases

Binary Bard

Black Widow

HadesASG

Thirsty Whale

These are Poptropican characters who have been recognized as being personas of Creators; however, there is currently no data on who is behind these aliases.

Binary Bard used to post on the Creators’ Blog but seems to have since retired. In the game, he’s the villain of Astro-Knights Island, also known as Mordred. His Poptropica username is BinaryBard.

Black Widow occasionally posts on the Creators’ Blog, and in the game, she’s the villain of Counterfeit Island. You can also add her at the username BlackWidowCreator. In the past, her identity was speculated to be Jennifer Wood, due to her high-ranking title (managing editor, senior project manager) at Poptropica, according to her LinkedIn profile. Her being female and her skills in copy editing (writing) made her a likely candidate for the alias of Black Widow. However, a conversation with Chris Barney (Triton; see above) revealed that while he could not reveal Black Widow’s true identity for privacy reasons, it was not Jennifer.

Gamer Guy(not pictured) briefly posted on the Creators’ Blog as an “intern”, as a joke to promote Mocktropica Island around the time of its release. His username is unknown, but he is represented in-game by Abe, the gamer on Zomberry Island. James Lema’s shirt tweet includes a signature from “Abe”, who may be represented by Gamer Guy. There is also someone named Abe (Abraham Tena) who has worked as a Poptropica game designer, and you can view his portfolio (which contains Poptropica art) on his website.

Red Lightning(not pictured) was briefly mentioned in a Creators’ Blog post as one of the Creators whose dog, Rubbles, played in the snow with a Dr. Hare plush toy one February day in 2017.

Thirsty Whale used to post on the Creators’ Blog but seems to have since retired. In the game, he’s Edmund Hilary, the first guy to reach the summit of Mt. Everest on Time Tangled Island. His name is possible to get when signing up, but you can find him on Poptropica as ThirstyWhaleCreator.

Vlad the Viking(not pictured) used to post on the Creators’ Blog but seems to have since retired. His name is also the username of the old Poptropica YouTube channel. In the game, he’s one of the Vikings on Time Tangled Island.

Other IRL Identities

Not much is known about these other Poptropica Creators (both past and present), but for reference, they are listed here with what little information we have of them:

If you have any other information about the Poptropica Creators you’d like to share with us, leave a comment on this page! There are probably loads more people out there who’ve worked with Poptropica, but these are the main ones we’ve uncovered. Stay popping, Poptropicans (and Creators)! 😀

U guys r awesome can u get anything on poptropica cuse u guys are the creators am I right and whhhhhy did u guys take the mordreds metal face disease off of poptropica email me please if I can help with a island like willywonka and the chocolate factory island many people like this idea on YouTube and I like it if not I will find you guys and blow bat bubbles at u jk from Carlos aka darkstar aka tough typhoon aka the bomb bye poptropican creators ….email me if u guys read this

I have proof that fact monsters name is dummy1063.If you type that username in avatar studio the name says fact monster.Plus it doesnt have to say fact monster because if fact monster wants his username dummy he can have his username dummy.It really doesnt matter.So now lets just say its dummy1063.

If you look at the cyborg eye it shows it is light green that must be what they planned ALSO IF some1 has already said this I DID NOT TRY TO PISS THEM OFF Because I was just looking around and found it also can you check out this post! Link: http://blog.poptropica.com/2009/04/rest-in-peace-help-blog.html . Is this YOUR BLOG there talking about? Reply please!

Back when the Creators’ Blog first posted sneak peeks of Astro-Knights Island, Binary Bard had a green mechanical eye. Perhaps they were planning to make him one of the good guys before they changed it red and made him evil. (Before & After – 5 months later)

The “Rest in Peace – Help Blog” post appears to be referring to the PHB. We had an April Fool’s joke in 2009 where the Poptropica Help Blog became the Club Penguin Help Blog, and the Creators came out with a post that day about the trick (hence “changed formats”). It was fun. 😛

I think THE FACT MONSTER pick is wrong its a pic of diamond caves THAT IS A MULTIVERSE ROOM only creators would be in there BECAUSE IT MIGHT be the sources account WICH I BELIEVE IS dummy1036 so I WOULD DELETE it if I was an owner of this blog! PLZ read it Slanted and DELETE the pic!

If you need proof he would need to know a code!

and its listed there FOR FERTHER MORE I present ITS A FAKE edition of spotting Fmonster LOL LOL LOL! PLEASE DELETE UNLESS YOU HAVE AN EXCUSESlanted Fish! 🙂

Yes, the picture was taken in a Multiverse room. That could mean a Creator visited because he would know of an open code at the time, so it might be the real Fact Monster. We do not know if dummy1063 is in fact the real FM’s username, since the username itself seems to suggest it is a clone.

dude( or dudett if your a girl) IT NOT LIKE HE GOT AN EMAIL OF THE CODE its not like the creators look at EVERY CODE and seriously I think its the dummy of the guy who took picture because it would be easy and well I JUST DON’T buy it. If it was the real deal it would mean A: he is a creator (which includes dummy as real thing) B:They somehow get everycode sent to them and send a ALERT to a creator’s choice to show up C: He edited the photo

I BELIEVE IT ISN’T HIM

But still to think they would look at your room codes thats wrong! and If they do then I don’t have a point but IF THEY DON’T I can prove because if see some posts they did they showed some sort of party in common rooms and well they are like right next to eachother so I believe its fake because I didn’t see any NORMAL poptropican enter!

If you still don’t believe me… YOU

ARE

WEIRD and so are the other not noticing no offense! look you carn’t talk me out! just get another photo (or no photo) the only way you can get a real photo is of dummy1036 in friends list because atleast people will believe it because you won’t include the username!

I didn’t say he got an email of the code. I’m not sure I understand you entirely, so please, calm down.

I took the picture myself three years ago, and the person next to Fact Monster is me (a “normal Poptropican), so no, it isn’t faked. The Multiverse was a mini-party we were having on the PHB chatroom (the PHC), so anyone there could know the code, and I’d written this PHB post about the possibility of someone there being FM. However, we don’t know for sure. This was long before the days of “Poptropica friends,” and besides, you can’t find out someone’s username by just adding them in a multiplayer room.

Also, the Creators have been known to visit open Multiverse rooms (for example, Dr Hare), so it is possible that they are able to access the codes, even if we don’t know for sure. Note that the username is dummy1063, not 36. I did include this username on the page but have mentioned that due to the nature of the username itself, it sounds like someone’s clone account since the other Creators have usernames that actually relate to them (eg. Hazmat Hermit’s is justinlacy because his real name is Justin Lacy, and Shark Boy’s is sharkboycreator).

edit:-MULTIVERSE- rooms and well they are like right next to eachother so I believe its fake because I didn’t see any NORMAL poptropican enter!

Oh and guys if you want some cool costumes I’m a member add me I’m JamesKiro I am usually on everyday but ever since I completed every iland I’m less active! I don’t go into common rooms because people flock me with chats battles and MY LEAST FAVOURITE friend EUGH!

Fact Monster doesn’t post on the Creators’ Blog, but the website Fact Monster is developed by the same person who helped develop Poptropica – Jess M. Brallier. Fact Monster (the website) is also a sponsor of Poptropica.

I still don’t get it. WHY would there be fact monster in the first place.. I KNOW he helped create Time Twisted and Time Tangled but still he has really weird costumes and stuff RELATED to nothing poptropica sent out… HES like I don’t know but still fact monster may be just a hacked account because he seems suspicious to me! MAYBE fm user really is dummy1063 because your aloud to have user you want HE doens’t really work for pop anywayz he just supports and advertises for eg mine is JamesKiro pretty crazy so whats the difference justinlacy chose it because he wanted to otherwise its all dr.Harecreator1 anywayz I know the difference CCF only has CCFC as his username he doesn’t have any1 as his alias yet thats why its CaptainCFC
ok so I have a point!

Time Twisted was Time Tangled’s name before the island was released. They’re the same thing.

FactMonster.com is an educational website developed by Jess M. Brallier, who also had a part in Funbrain and Poptropica. Fact Monster’s appearance is based on the mascot for the Fact Monster website, which you can search up if you need proof. Jess Brallier’s name appears in some press articles about Poptropica as a representative, so it’s safe to say that he does work at Poptropica.

Dr. Hare’s username is jordanleary, after Jordan Leary, a Poptropica Creator. As for some of the more recent discoveries, such as Captain Crawfish’s, we don’t have any information on his real name/identity and he chose not to identify it with his username, which is just captaincrawfishcreator. Just because the username goes with the alias doesn’t mean they’re not a Creator, for example directordcreator1 (Director D) is James Lema, as written on the database above.

It’s so strange that ON PENCIL WARRIOR it has the Time Twisted medallion! And that, my friends, is why I call Time Tangled Time Twisted. Oh, and before they called it Time Twisted or Time Tangled, It was called Time Lapse.

It was released as Time Tangled, but while it was in production, it was known as Time Twisted, and before that – Time Lapse (according to my research). A search of “Poptropica Time Lapse Island” can show some evidence of this, such as on this blog post by a long-time Poptropica player called Legoless.

I don’t care plz it may be real or fake but MY BIG QUESTION is is it the real fmonster it may of been a person who knew about it but still I guess he could of checked the blog! Btw I know tt and timetangled is the same!Still there kinda like stalkers watching us! LOL! I get you know it was 10 oclock when I posted some of my arguments so I must of been asleep! When is your next anniversary of PHB going to be because I wanna join in if you wanna know my name its Cuddly Bear >:O 😦 :O I forgot to change it because I thought my guy looked good but he had BAD NAME! I want NAME HACK!!!!!!!!!!!! I believe you now Slanted Fish thankyou!

I also think I know why James Lema is sooooooo very unactive HE MIGHT BE THE ONE WHO DELETED MONSTER CARNIVAL He and maybe thirsty whale helped as kitty said OR IT might be the other way around Dr.D helped Thirsty Whale!

Well I can’t confirm for sure whether or not the “Fact Monster” in the picture was the real one or not, since you can’t find out someone’s username just by seeing them in a multiplayer room (this was also before the friends feature was introduced). Still, there’s a chance he is real.

The PHB’s anniversary is on July 26 every year. Maybe you can join in on the next celebration! 🙂

How do you like my new Picture LOL! I did it yesterday I think it is NEAT! I hope you enjoy being a friend of a luxurius person JK JK LOL LOOOL! @slanted Fish What is your user I would like to friend you?! I hear you have helped Fuzzy-B’s blog in the past from some bad people who threatened and sweared in his blog! Your AWESOME! I just hope EVERY1 has a spoooooky Halloween and hope you all ejoy my costumes on the post from Slanted Fish!

hello to all the poptropica creators. i would just like to say that all of you changed my life. i say cause i was around 12-13 yrs old (maybeyounger) when i started playing then i stopped and started up again when i was 16 cause i forgot how much fun it was. i am going off to college soon and cause of you i am going to major in graphic and design, i would love to create a game that is as remotly great as yours… everyone who created poptropica is and will always be my insperation …THANK YOU SOO MUCH FOR YOUR IMPACT….p.s. look out for some of my game designs

Somehow, I don’t believe you’re sixteen. First, the lack of punctuation. Second, I believe that you are maybe 13, to 14. I’m only 10, so I can’t really relate. But, I know for sure I’m majoring in Creative Writing. Cheers, you sound like a nice guy.

Yes, I have noticed. Binary Code is an actual code, and you can translate it if you want. The newest post about Night Watch Island said, “shop ’til you drop,” in Binary Code. You can look it up on the internet if you want. Actually, here’s the link:http://www.qbit.it/lab/bintext.php
Awesome, right?

ok i think i know ned noodlehead’s username, ( possibly jeff kinneys) the username is nednoodleheadcreator and i think it is him because the only thing customizible is his hair nothing else, not even his smile.

I contacted them saying that i would be a great creator! i hope they make me one. P.S. if they did i’d make Slanted fish a creator. OMG do you think that there’s some glitch to do that? That would be really awesome. i would use it all the time!

you know what the creators should create actually?? a poptropica app for like ipods and iphones and stuff. like, i really wanna get the ds game poptropica adventures but it’s like thirty bucks. and an app would be so much easier to get, people won’t need to go to a store to buy it, they just use app store on their devices…(particularly apple cuz that’s what i use). and also there is a decreasing amount of people using nintendo and an increasing amount of people using ipods or phones or ipads or tablets or whatever. I WANNA TAKE POPTROPICA WITH ME EVERYWHERE!!!!

Slanted Fish: Poptropica has guide apps for mobile devices, which is the closest thing for now.

how do you get poseidon’s moustache i have a friend who has it and i really want it or zeus’s lighning staff not the one in the store his master bolt the onre he holds or hades beard i have friends who each have these things pls help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

can u make a poptropica island where someone steals you identity and ruins your reputation and u have to find them plzz and one that is multiplayer so u can play that particular one with a friend or something……. no pressure

everyone if you want to add thinknoodles to your poptropica freind list click on plus type in user name thinknoodles like this hoy i typed and graser10 will be graser8 like that ok comment me agein if it worked

On Jennifer Woods Linkedin it says that the people part of poptropica are Jennifer Wood, Dan Franklin, Christopher Barney, Billy Belfield, Chris Messner, Jordan Leary, Ashley Lange, Karl DeBisschop, Mitch Krpata, & Lance Fry. Do you know who those people are Slanted Fish?

I had just finished survival island episode 1 and it took me to the 2nd episode. I saw pages and tried to click them but nothing happened. Then I went farther and rocks started rolling at me, I went along with it for a while, but then decided I should check the walkthrough. I realized this wasn’t exactly normal for most players so I walked around the little bit of island I could actually walk on, and on the tree where you should of engraved your/ my name, read “Creator Steve was here”. What should I do?

Slanted Fish: Sounds like a glitch – try logging out and then back in again, play on a different web browser, and/or change computers.